NATURAL HISTORY of NO RTF AT. 135 



"Bort Lodde med al din forgiftige ftank 

 Al Verden foronfker dig alfkens fkavank 



Du eft os et riis og en fvobe : 

 Ret faafbm en hore, der tragter at flye, 

 Saa rornmer ungdommen med hende af bye. 



Som bukke med gederne lobe, &c." 



The fenfe of which lines is this : 



Away Lodde with thy poifonous ftench, 

 All the world wifhes thee pain and torment ; 

 Thou art to us a rod and a fcourge, 

 Thou art as a whore pretending to fly, 



In order to draw the unwary youth away with her out of town. 

 They run after her, like the wanton he-goats after the fe- 

 males, &c. 



The Lyr or Lyflfe, the Piper, a middle-fized Sea-fifh, feme- ti- 

 thing like the Trout kind in fhape, tho' fmaller. The fcales 

 alfo are lefs, and the flefh is excellent. Some look upon this Fifh 

 to be nearly allied to the Salmon ; and the roe is reckoned a 

 very great delicacy. They are caught with a net, but not in 

 any great quantity. Aldrovand, Lib. ii. c. vii. fpeaks of a Fifh 

 in the Mediterranean by the name of Lyra, whofe head is fhaped 

 like a harp, but whether that belongs to this clafs I do not 

 know. 



SECT. II. 



The Mackarel, Scomber, a well known Fifh, of about a foot Mu&arei. 

 long, with beautiful^ blue and green ftripes on its fmooth mining 

 fkin : the flefh is like the Herring's, but without that ftrong 

 flavour ; and has not fo many fmall bones. It is very white, 

 and agreeable to thofe who can digeft their fat ; but is not 

 reckoned very wholefome by the phyfkians. When they firft 

 appear with us in the Spring they are very lean, but they grow 

 fatter towards the Summer. The Mackarel is an unfteady and 

 uncertain Fifh ; for they go in great fhoals from one place to 

 another, and drive the Herrings before them, which are terrified 

 at their appearance. They are eafily caught with hooks and 

 lines, and in nets in great numbers. They are pickled, and 

 exported ; but what is got by them hardly makes amends for 

 the lofs of the Herrings which are driven away by them. They 

 are exceffive greedy and voracious, like the Shark kind ; and, like 



them, 



